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Britain's Digital Economy Act has huge implications for freedom of expression
Michael Harris: Britain's Digital Economy Act has huge implications for freedom of expression
26 Apr 10

I’ve written a short blog explaining the potential effects of the UK’s Digital Economy Act to American readers of Dissent magazine.

If you think this only affects Internet users in Britain, think again. As with so much illiberal legislation, once mandated in one country, it begins to creep abroad. As Ian Brown, of the Oxford Internet Institute writes in the latest edition of the Index on Censorship magazine: “The European Commission has been secretly negotiating a new anti-counterfeiting treaty with the US, Japan and other developed nations that would mandate a three strikes policy.”

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By Mike Harris

Mike Harris is head of advocacy at Index on Censorship

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